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They led direct to a side barranca. There the pursuers found the camp. It was deserted. Like a hound on the trail, Captain Funcke cast about him. "Here's where they came in. No yes this is it. Confound the cross-tracks!.. Here one of them cuts across the ridge to the tenaja for water. "Wait!... What's this? Coyote trail? Yes, but... Trail brushed over, by thunder!
As to the gold train, I don't think there's much doubt about it, because the news in the town is that a runner came in from Barranca this morning with a message from the commandant that the train had arrived there last night, and might be expected at Cartagena some time to-morrow, most likely pretty late in the evening.
There was no time to move. All we could do was to cower beneath our rock, muscles tense, and hope to be able to glide around the shadow as he passed. But he did not pass. Down into the shallow barranca he slid with a tinkle of shale, and drew rein within ten feet of our lurking place. We could hear the soft snorting of his mount above the thumping of our hearts.
He kept on down the barranca for about two miles, he said, till he struck the cross-trail to Tesuque; and he headed north on that till he got to Pojuaque where he give the mule a rest, she was blowed all to bits, the mule was, he said; and he got some of old man Bouquet's wine in him, feeling pretty well blowed to bits himself; and then he come along home.
This great barranca is between two and three thousand feet deep, and the view is wonderful. We went down a considerable way by a zig-zag road, my companion collecting armfuls of plants by the way, but unfortunately losing his thermometer, which could not be found, though a long hunt for it produced a great many more plants, and so the trouble was not wasted.
Next morning, we went off to get a view of the great barranca of Regla. A ride over the hills brought us to a wood of oaks, with their branches fringed with the long grey Spanish moss, and a profusion of epiphytes clinging to their bark, some splendidly in flower, showing the fantastic shapes and brilliant colours one sees in English orchid-houses.
"That's Miss Van Arsdale," said Banneker. Seated in her saddle the newcomer hailed Banneker. "What news, Ban? Is the wreck cleared up?" "Yes. But the track is out twenty miles east. Every arroyo and barranca is bank-high and over." He had crossed the platform to her. Now she raised her deep-set, quiet eyes and rested them on the girl.
You remember, father, that I came into camp covered with blood, and that you thought I had been monkeying with a mountain lion." "Ye-es, I recollect the circumstances, but I never heard about the bear and bull episode before. I seem to have sort of a dim notion that you were packing a deer home on your back and fell into a barranca with it and lost it in a mud slough, but perhaps I'm mistaken.
The foe had been crippled and cowed by the terrible chastisement, and we knew it would be some time before they could muster force enough to take our trail. Still we lost not a moment, but travelled as fast as the ganados could be pushed forward. In five days we reached the Barranca del Oro, and passed the old mine, the scene of our bloody conflict.
The concluding terms intimated an intention on the part of the enemy of making an attempt to retake their captives; but we cared little for this, provided we could once get them on our side of the barranca.
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